BALANCED: Building Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development
The final report of the BALANCED-Philippines project.
read moreVol. 1 Issue 5: The final newsletter of the BALANCED project focuses on PHE, challenges, successes, lessons learned.
read moreThis publication profiles PHE champions in the Philippines.
read moreThe final newsletter issue for the BALANCED Project: PHE Lessons Learned
read moreThis report compares the findings of surveys conducted in 2011 and 2013 to assess the results and impacts of the BALANCED-Philippines Project.
read moreAt the start of the Building Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development (BALANCED) Project activities in Tanzania, the project undertook a behavior monitoring survey to map out attitudes and behaviors related to reproductive health, poverty, food security, climate change awareness, HIV/AIDS-related behaviors and coastal resources management. The goal of the 2009 BMS baseline survey was to understand the context for PHE in the SANAPA area and to inform the design of an integrated PHE intervention. In 2012, the project undertook a follow-up survey to assess the changes in behaviors and attitudes that have come about as a result of the BALANCED Project interventions. Like the 2009 survey, the end-line survey assessed the status of population, socio-economic, health, and environmental conditions in six project villages versus two control villages. This publication documents the results.
read moreThis facilitators' guide to behavior change communications in PHE projects emerged from a BALANCED Project workshop.
read moreThis publication describes the tool for conducting PHE Behavior Monitoring Surveys
read moreSemi-annual Results Report #9, July 1, 2012 -- Dec. 31, 2012
read moreBALANCED-Philippines Project Overview and Year 2 Workplan
read moreSemi-annual Results Report #8, Jan. 1, 2012 -- June 30, 2012
read moreWorkplan for Year 5 of the BALANCED Project
read moreA Guide for Training PHE Comunity-based Distributors
read moreIssue 4 of the The BALANCED Project Newsletter on PHE approaches and their contribution to millennium development goals.
read moreBaseline Survey (2011) for Population, Health and Environment Scale-up Project in the Philippines
read moreSemi-Annual Results Report #7, July 1, 2011 -- Dec. 31, 2011
read moreThe April 2012 BALANCED newsletter highlights how PHE approaches contribute to the progess towards three Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Gender Equality, Chilld and Maternal Health, and Environmental Sustainability. The introductory article calls on the international development community to: promote the value of integrated PHE approaches in international policy dialogues; increase support for universal access to family planning and reproductive health services; and foster creative international financing policies to better link health, development and conservation.
read moreA Guide for Training PHE Adult Peer Educators
read moreQuarterly Progress Report #3 For Period July 1 to September 30, 2011
read moreWorkplan for Year 4 of the BALANCED Project
read moreProject Design Concept for Philippines Mission Buy-in for OH and OEE Funded Activities to the BALANCED Project
read moreBuilding Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development: The BALANCED Project
read moreTrain-the-Trainer Guide for Training PHE Community-Based Distributors and PHE Adult Peer Educators
read moreSemi-annual results report number 6.
read moreYear 3 Workplan July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011
read morePopulayion-Health-Environment (PHE) Youth Peer Education: A Guide for Training Youth Peer Educators Working on PHE Activities
read moreThe BALANCED Project Newsletter, Issue 3, PHE and Livelihoods
read moreAn Assessment of the Benefits of Integrating Family Planning and Environmental Management Activities in the Visayas Region of the Philippines
read morePractice, Harvest and Exchange: Exploring and Mapping the Global Population, Health, Environment (PHE) Network of Practice
read moreReference Guide for PHE Community-Based Distributors and PHE Adult Peer Educators
read moreSemi-Annual Results Report #5 For Period July 1 - December, 2010
read moreSemi-annual results report, year 3, July -- December 2010
read morePopulation, Health, Environment Situational Analysis for the Saadani National Park Area, Tanzania
read moreThe Summer 2011 isse of the BALANCED Newsletter examines the link between PHE approaches and livelihoods. In recognition of the need and/or the "fit" for PHE projects to address a wider array of real life topics this issue of the BALANCED newsletter includes four articles that focus on the topic of PHE and livelihoods. The articles describe how livelihoods have been integrated into environmental conservation in Zambia, Ethiopia, and Madagascar.
read moreMrs. Jeanne Nyirakamana serves as the Head of the Health Program in rural Rwanda advancing PHE efforts for the USAID-supported "Sustaining Partnerships to Enhance Rural Enterprise and Agribusiness Development" (SPREAD) Project. She and her outreach team help improve the lives of coffee farmers and cooperative members by providing them with health information and services related to family planning, maternal and child health, prevention of HIV/AIDS and water and sanitation. Read more about Jeanne's work in her PHE champion story.
read moreMr. Pascal Gakwaya Kalisa has produced coffee in the densely-populated country of Rwanda for the past nine years. He also helps promote improved health practices among the coffee farmer cooperatives and community members in one of the world's most densly-popuated countries. Read more about his efforts as a PHE champion.
read moreMrs. Ruth Siyage is a Population, Health and Enviroment (PHE) champion, promoting family planning and livelihoods for a healthy environment in Uganda. She works with the Conservation through Public Health (CTPH) near the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) in Uganda's Kishande village, in the Bujengwe Parish, Kanungu District. For more information, please read her story in this PHE Champion profile.
read moreMr. Sam Rugaba is community conservation health worker in Uganda, where he promotes childhood education and encourages family planning in order to help communities protect natural resources. Sam's community selected him to represent them in the Conservation though Public Health (CTPH) Population, Health and Environment program because of his respect in the community, his trustworthiness, and his good communication skills. Please read more about Sam in this PHE Champion profile.
read moreRukia Seif is a population, health, environment (PHE) peer educator who promotes simple economic, environmental, and health behaviors that make sense. In many ways, the Mkalamo village where Rukia lives is a typical rural Tanzanian agricultural village. In another important way it is very different. Mkalamo abuts the biodiversity rich Saadani National Park—the only wildlife park in Tanzania that borders the sea. This PHE champions story describes how she implements PHE approaches to help her community improve health and environmental conditions.
read morePopulation, Health and Environment (PHE) Approaches and Links to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
read moreTopic Mapping for Organizing Document Collections Online: An example of the population, health and environment (PHE) approach and the Knowledge for Health platform
read moreImproving Human Health and Conservation in The Democratic Republic of Congo
read morePromoting Family Planning and Livelihoods for a Healthy Environment in Uganda
read moreMaking Life Easier in Rural Tanzania.
read moreSemi-Annual Results Report #4 For Period January 1 - June 30, 2010
read moreYear 2 Workplan July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010
read morePopulation, Health, and Environment (PHE) Approaches
read moreSemi-Annual Results Report #3 For Period July 1 - December 31, 2009
read moreThe Success of a PHE provider in education a muslim community
read moreThe BALANCED project seeks to encourage the adoption and promotion of PHE approaches among champions and practioners in areas of high biodiversity threatened by population pressures. *Through this semi-annual Newsletter, we will highlight insights and ideas from ongoing field experience on why PHE is important, delve into what PHE approaches are, and examine best practices in applying PHE concepts on the ground. The primary target audience for the BALANCED Newsletter is people who are already aware of PHE approaches, who might be interested in incorporating them into their own projects as well as for PHE Champions utilizing PHE messages and methods.
read moreIn the remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Albert Lotana Lokasola is helping improve human well-being by bringing much-needed health services to the communities living in and around the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve.
read moreThe Fall 2010 issue of the BALANCED Newsletter examines the links between PHE approaches and climate change mitigation and adaptation, because of the increasing global and national attention on the growing threat of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the impacts of climate change on communities, and interventions to address these impacts. This second issue contains five articles on: *The broad links between climate change and opportunities for PHE projects and practitioners to address climate change in their work and vice versa—i.e., for PHE approaches to inform climate change adaptation approaches; *An evolving institutional approach to addressing PHE and climate change adaptation at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF); *A vulnerability assessment in Tanzania and potential links between a community-based coastal adaptation initiative and PHE activities; *A synthesis of a Batelle Memorial Institute commissioned report by CDM International Inc. and USAID describing the state of the science on glacial melt in the Asia Near East region and how integrated approaches can help reduce climate change impacts in the region; and *An overview of the Ethio-Wetlands and Natural Resources Association (EWNRA) PHE Project in Ethiopia which is helping to meet climate change objectives.
read moreSemi-Annual Results Report #2 For Period January 1 - June 30, 2009 Submitted August 15, 2009
read moreYear 1 Workplan September 17, 2008 – June 30, 2009
read moreSemi-Annual Results Report #1 For period September 17 - December 31, 2008
read morePromoting and Advancing Integrated Population, Health and Environment Approaches
read moreEncouraging Childhood Education and Birth Spacing as an Approach to Conservation
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